Cause Due to an Azure service outage affecting Azure Automation; automation jobs were not running on a Hybrid Worker and going to a failed state or hanging. The issue was raised with Microsoft, who advised us to remove a certificate from the Microsoft Monitoring Agent store. However, this was before they were fully aware of […]
Within Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr), you can use Discovery Methods to get data about your devices. When a device is successfully discovered it creates a Data Discovery Records (DDRs) file. The DDR then stores all the information about the Device in your ConfigMgr database. DDRs can be useful for adding extra data which you wish to […]
So like the the King of the North the GUI in Windows Server looks set to be resurrected with Microsoft’s announcement of “Project Honolulu”! Microsoft Ignite is going to see the launch of Microsoft’s new local browser based management platform and tools for Windows Server. What to Expect Microsoft haven’t given a lot away but […]
After months of planning and hard work, we’re excited to announce The DevOps Hub to the world finally! The DevOps Hub is a Blog, News and Resource website for all things System Management, Cloud Services and Automation. Why We Started The DevOps Hub was formed as a platform to give back to the community which […]
Problem:Came across problem connecting to failover cluster service where the host was accessible but unable to connect to it via failover cluster manager. Related to Microsoft Article on protecting against short-term network interruptions. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn440540.aspx Resolution:Failed the node over and then connected to the cluster and ran the below powershell against the cluster. Enter-PSSession –ComputerName DMLCulsterServer(Get-Cluster).CrossSubnetThreshold […]
Problem Came across a problem with DPM failing with “Replica is Inconsistent (3106)”. Initially tried running a consistency check and resuming the backup job but both failed. ResolutionFound a great post from James Trevaskis on how to resolve this. 1. locate the ActiveOwner (located in “C:Program FilesMicrosoft Data Protection ManageDPMActiveOwner”) directory on the SQL server hosting the DB. […]
UPDATE 22/01/2016: Workaround for this published by BI a while back, have redocumented and posted here. Community post on setting up Power BI’s Personal Gateway to run as a service account. Full Video Below Configuring the Power BI Service Account 1. Setup an account in your Active Directory Environment with the below credentials. Full Name: Power BI […]
Update 07/07/2016 Version 1.4 is now out, please refer to below link to view the latest version. PowerON Power BI – ConfigMgr Dashboard So I’ve recently joined the PowerOnPlatforms team and I’ve been working with SCCM and Power BI to develop some reporting dashboards I wanted to share :). This report displays some overview information […]
I encountered a strange problem reported by our service desk yesterday after updating Service Manager 2012 R2 (SCSM) to CU7. The service desk reported that some of the service request areas had somehow reverted back to default enumeration names. So some background. Against our recommendation (sigh), the service desk decided to utilize some unneeded default […]
It was an interesting night upgrading the Cireson service portal from 3.6 to 3.7 with Rob. The install is pretty straight forward but there are a couple of minor gotchas when upgrading via the Cireson Setup. Using SSL settings and hostname bindings When installing the portal, it defaults to http and blank hostname. This is […]
